Words and Music is the fourth studio album by Aqualung.

It features acoustic versions of tracks from Aqualung's eponymous first album, Aqualung, and new songs written in a similar style.

It does not follow on musically from the previous Memory Man.

On 31 August 2008 Hales released news of his upcoming album on his MySpace page "I'm really very pleased with the new album...

And it's emotional and candid and funny and friendly.